Getting creative

endorphin

ianmorland nice but can I suggest that this poll feature not be made available to members please! If it were I suspect GD would be overrun with polls.

ianmorland

endorphin absolutely! This feature is currently available on the main community too, where it is reserved for staff only just as you suggest

endorphin

ianmorland phew!

i_am_sy

endorphin

There’s probably like 5 of us that could use it from time to time though lol

We should have just left GD and Forum games behind on Lithium and forgotten about them lol

endorphin

i_am_sy We should have just left GD and Forum games behind on Lithium and forgotten about them lol

But then giffgaff would drop down in the SEO rankings not having all those embedded links and topical phrases.

mrjeeves

endorphin

All links are marked as UGC (user generated content) so are ignored by search bots and don’t affect rankings.

Inspect this link and discover rel="... ugc" on it!

jesi23

ianmorland
Android or iPhone? and why not have ‘Windows Phone’ as an option?
Technically, this is not a phone; it is iPad (and can’t remember password for Apple ID, so not use the app).

I DO have a Windows Phone, though, bought refurbished from giffgaff. When the iPhone stopped charging battery, I had to transfer the SIM into the Windows Phone to continue to use the Internet Sharing/HotSpot for all the household devices while we are in temporary flat.

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endorphin

mrjeeves thanks for the heads up. Having done some reading up, apparently from 1 March 2020 “sponsored”, “no-follow” and “ugc” link attributes may be used a hints for ranking, crawling and indexing. However I don’t know much about SEO so I can’t say what the practical differences are.

mrjeeves

endorphin

That said, UGC shouldn’t affect ranking. All the hint stuff is just because they want to be able to crawl some links, presumably if they’ve never looked at that page before which makes a lot of sense.

Either way, UGC wouldn’t exist if it didn’t have some form of effect, so whether it only has a positive effect or has no effect, who knows?

endorphin

mrjeeves so whether it only has a positive effect or has no effect, who knows?

Not me, that’s for certain! 😃

i_am_sy

endorphin

I don’t know, but I do know that you know that you don’t know.

endorphin

i_am_sy “we don’t know what we don’t know”!

i_am_sy

endorphin

Yes but we do know that we don’t know what we don’t know.

dtuxcomp

ianmorland Needs another box for de-googled Android mate 🙂

mrjeeves

dtuxcomp Ah yes, I too like removing all the best functionality from my device.

In my opinion, I don’t see any point keeping my data private. They already know everything about me.

dtuxcomp

mrjeeves True but it’s fun to make them work for it occasionally 😉 🙂

lincsguy

Android is fine for me,but I wish they would stop updating it to a higher number, as I lose some abilities on my Android 4.4 every time they do!

dtuxcomp

lincsguy Sadly that’s the way with most of them, v4.4 is quite old now, so why would the manufacturers want to keep that going when not doing it might encourage you to buy their next phone ? It’s a shame because it leads to more e-waste.

mrjeeves

dtuxcomp

Orrr it might also be to do with the fact that 4.4 KitKat is coming up on being 8 years old now, and running modern Android on 8 year old processors wouldn’t be usable. Though, people are still getting the Galaxy S2 (partially) working on Android 11.

I wouldn’t even want to try Android 10/11 on my S3 – I remember installing Android 8 and it was incredibly painful to use.

Google need to stop backporting features to older versions of Android eventually, and it’s because of this that apps start requiring newer versions on Android to run, though, to be fair, a surprising number of apps will still work on 4.4 KitKat if they use the right backwards-compatibility libraries when developing!

lincsguy

You sound as cynical as me! I agree 100% !